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By Col. Ann Wright The South Korean Navy wants to continue construction of a naval base for 18 ships and two submarines in an area that will destroy a pristine shoreline and endanger marine life. Local villagers and activists from the mainland of South Korea have struggled for five years to prevent the construction of the base.
Posted on Aug 25, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Just this year the Israelis intercepted, boarded and impounded the French ship Dignite as it participated in Freedom Flotilla 2. That was done in international waters well clear of the coordinates provided by the Israelis for their blockade of Gaza and very near to the coordinates of the attack on the USS Liberty.
Posted on Aug 16, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright A small flotilla carrying human rights and peace activists to Israel-blockaded Gaza was itself blockaded in Greece after intense diplomatic pressure from Washington and Tel Aviv. But the Israeli news media continues to heap ridicule on the passengers.
Posted on Aug 2, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Four female Nobel Peace laureates—Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi and Rigoberta Menchú Tum—have sent an open letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, asking him to reconsider his position and to “call on all governments to support the safe passage of the Freedom Flotilla II.”
Posted on Jun 17, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright Force is not the way to stop worldwide condemnation of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. The way to stop the flotilla is to end the naval blockade of Gaza. Until the blockade ends, Flotillas filled with citizens from around the world will continue to challenge Israeli’s brutal policies and the United States complicity in them.
Posted on Jun 9, 2011
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By Col. Ann Wright We will continue to challenge Israel’s impunity of acting beyond international law and will sail to Gaza until Israel ends its naval blockade of Gaza. We on the US Boat to Gaza have the audacity to hope that the United States will finally use its substantial economic leverage to convince Israel it is in its own security interest, as well as the security interest of the United States, to end the blockade of Gaza.
Posted on Jun 3, 2011
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Col. Ann Wright
Ann Wright is a retired Army Reserve colonel and a 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She was also a diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the Department of State on March 19, 2003, in opposition to the Iraq war. She is the co-author of “Dissent: Voices of Conscience” (http://www.voicesofconscience.com).
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